Improvement in washing-machines



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Leners Pawn: No. 93,702, latta August 17, 1869.

IMPRQVEMENT IN WASHING-MAQH'INES.

. 4 l I* A The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern v Be it known that I, EDWIN GILLIS, of the city of Battle Greek, in the county 'of Calhoun, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Boiler Washing-Machines, and`I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to' .the annexed drawings, making apart of this specii-.

cation, and to the letters cf reference 'marked thereon, l V

' 'l result depends 'on ftheamount of solid water lifted, and

in -Which- Figure, l exhibits a show the interior.

' Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section.

imilar lettersot' reference indicate correspondingparts in both'igures. I

'My invention applies to that class of washing-ma chines known by the title of cataract, that operate within a wash-boiler, by elevating the boiling sudswater at the periphery ofan open,- slotted cylinder, and. permitting itvto full on the k clothes inside;v and It relates to the employment of tr0ugh-slats,'of pe; culiar construction, for elevating the suds-water and discharging it in thin sheets, whereby importanthd? vantages are secured, not only to the clothes, but in the additional ease with' which the Amachine may be operated, as will be hereinafter described.

Inside of a wash-boiler, A, made of sheet-tin, or copper, in any 0f the ordinary ways, I hang al revolving cylinder, 0 composed of twojsheet-metal heads','h, which are provided with cent-re gudgcons or4 journals, 7', and outside crank,B. v

'Ihese two heads are connected, andthe peripheryface of the cylinder formed by any vdesired number of shallow sheet-metal troughs, c, the ends of which are soldered, or otherwise irmly attached to the inner top view, the cover removed, to-

',iaces of the heads.

I construct the troughs e by bending the two sides on a former, at an acute -anglc with' the bottom, so that in the inside of the cylinder the edgesof the. -troughs will converge nearly togetherin the centreA i line,`suhcient space being left between to fill readily when submerged in the boiling suds-water, and to empty in unbroken sheets, when sufficiently inverted by the act of revolving. l

Sufficient open spaces, or intervals, as at fi, should he left for the free circulation o f the sudswater through the cylinder, which is constructed, as usual, in two longitudinal sections, securedtogether bya hinge, at

a, and hasp, at l), to permit the insertion and removal oi the clothes; .and said cylinder is hung, by'its endf journals, to proper bearings formed in or attached to the sides of the boiler, so that it will revolve within ,tions during the washing,

. and Ydischarge-jareas,

, the'speedy and thorough removal of the dirt is mainly dueto the impact ofthe falling h ot suds-water upon #the clothes, whenthe cylinder containing them is made to turn, rst is one, direction and then the other.

:It-wouldfollow, tl-ierefore, that the degree of eicient .on the distance which it falls. ,In .all these machines, hitherto known to me, the .,s'uds-weater is carried in round tubes, as shown by the y, dotted lines at e', and discl'iagedtln'ough perforations '.inthefinner sides'. Asv it is essential for the clothescylinderto'be revolved alternately in opposite directhese apertures must lie iu radial lines, I, through the centre of the tubes, and if sufficiently large to yield streams of sufficient' gravity to act with proper impact, the tubes will be emptied beforethey have attained their highest elevation.

A reference to fig. 2 will show that my triangular troughs,

(the effect of centrifugal force being considered equal,) will carry up more suds-water to the highest point than can possibly be elevated by perfo'ratedtubes Vhaving a sufficiently ample capacity of discharge.

dirt than is the same quant-ity when dispersed rin numerous lsmall streams falling from lower elevations.'v

' A washing-cylinder furnished with the troughs c will alsoturn much easier than one having tubes, ou account of its displacing thewater with less abruptness.

c, constructed substantially as herein described, and Iarran ged and operated as and for the purpose set forth.

EDWIN Y GILLIS.

Witnesses: f

. Crus; P. BROWN,

GEORGE F. IHELPS.

owing to 'the arrangement of their containing The effect of the suds-water, whenl falling thus in unbroken sheets upon the clothes asthey y shift position, is much more eii'eetive in removing the 

